I consider Database.Open (Webmatrix.Data) to be a simple and elegant way to teach newcomers about database access before getting into more complex ways of building a DAL.
I hope MS keeps supporting it.
by artificer
on Oct 5, 2013 at 5:32 PM

Far better than previous MS attempts at a web programming API, and easy to use for basic tasks. Some very poor quality code and design decisions make advanced usage unnecessarily painful (e.g. important classes & even functional interfaces such IActionMethodSelector and IUriValueProviderFactory are internal); some parts are textbook spaghetti code with Gordian knots of extension methods.
by PeteAppleton
on Jun 17, 2013 at 8:07 PM